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Allen Ginsberg class, Literary history of the Beat generation, the 50's, part 2, March, 1981.

by: Ginsberg, Allen

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Publication date: 1981-03-26 00:00:00

Usage: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

Item Size: 1.6G

Allen Ginsberg class on Beat literary history of the 1950's, discussing William S. Burroughs's book Junky and his first meeting with Herman Hunke. Ginsbergs discusses passages from the book, including teaheads (page 17), informers (page 47), fags (page 72), the Rio Grande Valley (page 105) and interzone prototypes (page 111). Part 2 of a 20 part series.

Addeddate: 2004-11-16 16:52:41

Boxid: OL100020212

Event: Class

Identifier: Allen_Ginsberg_class__Literary_history_o_81P002

Naropa_identifier: 81P002

Run time: 1:02:00

Taped by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Type: sound

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Reviewer: boxen - - April 24, 2008
Subject: good readings

Ginsberg reads extensively from "Junky" here - this one is lots of fun.

Reviewer: Blank - - December 31, 2004
Subject: 20 highlights of WSB

0: correcting handouts.
Burrough's first take on Huncke (junky p.5)
-second impression of Huncke
-First hit of Junk
-Getting junk from Docs
-themes of WSB, drug habit, bureacracy, virus-host relationships, human sex
-finks

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